Chapter Eighty-Six: It's All a Mystery
As Zheng Yan walked through the rows of shelves, the chaotic sounds became clearer and clearer, and he finally heard who the owner of these voices was, strange, why did the sound sound so slim when it was only seventeen or eighteen zhang away, and turned around a row of shelves with doubts and saw a picture that also puzzled him,
"How did you get in?",
Zheng Xinglu and Zheng Yuan, who were arguing, stopped, and the other people who persuaded the onlookers also looked over, and Bai Bo, who was holding the little tiger, asked strangely, "Where is Yuchan?"
didn't see Zheng Xingye and Xingshuang, Zheng Yan pointed to it and then walked over to carefully observe the four people in front of him, Zheng Xinglu said angrily, "You are embarrassed to say, you two have been in for three days and there is no news at all, aren't we worried",
"Three days?!", Zheng Yan asked in a lost voice,
The other four people looked strange, and after a while, Zhang Caiyun was the first to react and said softly, " It's not strange what happened here, time may have really been manipulated, we saw the sunrise and sunset three times outside, three days should be undoubted, the next morning I didn't see you go back Xingshuang and Xingye were worried and they had already followed, but the four of us only found some traces of fighting all the way down, and we didn't see them until we went up to the third floor, but we couldn't touch them, they seemed to have become a part of those lights and shadows, and Xinglu suspected that they were caught in the time vortex... Time...",
Zheng Xinglu took over and muttered, "That's right, I speculate that the people we see on the third floor are not the ones we are now, uh, let's put it this way, we are on a common timeline outside, so we can communicate and do things, and here each of us has an independent timeline, and we can only see light and shadow or see nothing without intersection, oh, by the way, there is also a problem with the space here, I didn't expect the highest pursuit of Heaven to present such a state here",
Time and space are indeed the highest goals pursued by the monks who practice the Heavenly Dao nowadays, and Zheng Yan has seen the space, time, thinking of this, and said to the four people, "You are here first, and then I will go back and have a look, I didn't see them when I passed the third floor just now, besides, you can go up to the fourth floor, don't go up to the sixth and seventh floors",
Zheng Xinglu said helplessly, "We didn't find a way to go up to the fourth floor on the third floor, otherwise we wouldn't have stayed here forever."
Zheng Yan couldn't explain it and couldn't figure it out, so he finally told them the rules for picking things here and went back.
Again to the third floor has not seen the twelve layers of light and shadow, but only one layer, is exactly the appearance of the world, now think about the human world below two layers and nine layers above, that is to say, the sky has nine layers and the earth has two? Zheng Yan has never heard of this statement, I remember that the book says that the sky has thirty-six layers, and the earth only has the underworld, and the eighteenth layer of the underworld is actually another place similar to this seven-fold pagoda, which has not yet exceeded the scope of the underworld, and should not be regarded as one layer.
I didn't have time to take a closer look at the rush that I came just now, and then I found that the roof of this layer turned out to be the shape of a dome, and it was full of astrological charts, Zheng Yan didn't know much about the stars, but he felt that the scene above his head was very fine and more comprehensive, and it seemed to be running slowly, and it turned out to be a celestial model!
Could it be that beyond the Nine Heavens is a constellation of stars?
It is said that the dwelling place of the upper immortals is between the stars, which means that they are not in the heavenly realm?
Well, this is indeed a bit subversive of the previous cognition, but it seems that everyone used to listen to it as a story, after all, no one has ascended in the world for too many years, and no immortals have been born, and I haven't even heard of reincarnation.
Just when Zheng Yan was full of emotion, he was suddenly patted on the shoulder, and when he turned around, he saw that it was Zheng Xingye,
"Where is Yuchan, it's been a day and a night, and you have a baby here?",
"Where's Starfrost?",
This guy is getting less and less upright now, Zheng Yan couldn't help but pull him to the staircase leading to the second floor, "They are on the star road below, you go first, don't come up again, I'll go to Xingshuang",
Zheng Xingye hurriedly came to live again, Zheng Yan said with a smile, "It's weird here, I saw you once just now, but you didn't agree no matter how I called you, I couldn't find the way up or the way down before, are you sure you want to stay here?" Xingshuang originally followed me, and I didn't see it again when I passed through the fog of the Dragon Gate."
Zheng Yan only said to let him go down and then return to the third floor again, thinking about what Zheng Xinglu said about the spool, he began to walk around, hoping that he could also bump into Xingshuang like he had just met Zheng Xingye, how could they not see the staircase? How did they pass through the fog of the dragon gate?
The entire floor was empty, and the ground of unknown material began to change color as Zheng Yan landed, and the stone walls and wooden panes were covered with a lot of almost undetectable runes, Zheng Yan wandered aimlessly while thinking about who built this underground palace, and what was the purpose? The key is to know what needs to be left, the old man above said that his mother left the past, what kind of past is it?
There are too many questions that make Zheng Yan uncomfortable, as if he is on an independent timeline, what he sees and hears is so illusory, objective? What is objectivity?
Xingshuang looked at Zheng Yan quietly with a stunned expression for a while, and then couldn't help but reach out and want to grab him, but seeing his hand pass through his figure, he was suddenly full of amazement, "Is this the feeling you said?", the woman said softly, I don't know who she was talking to, suddenly a pair of arms hugged her from behind, and Xingshuang's long sword was instantly unsheathed,
"It's me",
Zheng Yuchan turned to look at Xingshuang and then looked at Zheng Yan who was looking at her, her expression was a little strange, but she didn't say anything, and pulled Xingshuang to beckon Zheng Yan to go down.
Zheng Yan looked at the two people who seemed to appear there naturally, and was a little stunned for a moment, was Zheng Yuchan connecting the timelines of the two?
The three of them finally met with the others on the second floor, looking at the surrounding can be said to be a dazzling array of magic weapons, magic weapons, and all kinds of things that can't be seen in the past, everyone is a little unnatural, after all, they are all monks, just like the drunkard and the wine, the demon and the beautiful concubine, well, it's not appropriate to say so, in short, Zheng Xinglu finally touched a shield more than two feet high,
"Look, this shield also carries nine short swords! it's actually a set", Zheng Xinglu suddenly exclaimed,
Over there, Bai Bomo was holding a lancet more than three feet long and couldn't put it down, hadn't she ever practiced martial arts?
Looking at Zhang Caiyun just standing next to a small tripod more than a foot high engraved with inscriptions, it was the first time I saw her look obsessed with something, well, this mood is indeed moving enough, no wonder Zheng Xingye is a little addicted to it;
Zheng Yuan took a deep breath and walked to a table, there was a domineering long knife on the table, all said that he liked to reflect a person's temperament, usually looked at this guy with an honest and silent appearance, I didn't expect to like such a powerful blade, this knife is at least four feet long, the handle is two-handed, a bit of *, but the blade of the knife head is obviously wider than *, it should be a special saber made by monks or swordsmen;
Zheng Xingye explained the inscription on the tripod to Zhang Caiyun, which seems to be not only an imperial treasure formula, but also a very good exercise;
Xingshuang had already walked to a corner, where there was a big urn, and the urn was full of swords, Zheng Yan shouted helplessly, "Aren't you going to tell me how you got in? What did you go through after you came in?
No one answered... , Zheng Yuchan next to her seemed to be in a particularly good mood, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I think it should be that after selecting the things to take away, it will automatically teleport us out",
Zheng Yan frowned and asked suspiciously, "Then if you don't take it, you won't be able to get out?"
Zheng Yuchan smiled slyly and said, "I just said it casually, not to mention that it is difficult to determine the selection of a certain thing, it is difficult to distinguish whether to sacrifice it or put it in your arms, everything here carries some kind of spell, I think it will probably be triggered when you leave this underground palace, and then extract the corresponding things from us and send them back, it may be memory, it may be a certain part of the body or divine soul or just the breath, the breath of the true element and the divine consciousness, eh, do you say that the cultivation of luck cause and effect will also be within the scope of extraction?"
Zheng Yan said calmly: "What I asked is how to get out... How about we erase the spell you spoke of before we go out?
Zheng Yuchan looked at Zheng Yan with a strange look, and after a while, she sighed and said softly, "Most people in the world have this kind of cleverness, so many of our moral laws will always be constantly challenged and destroyed."
Zheng Yan was speechless, and then noticed that there were a lot of things hanging on the roof, and there were exactly two knives on the top of his head, fortunately with sheaths, otherwise he might have empowered people if they fell, etc., what if this thing has hundreds of pounds? "Be careful, there are things hanging on it, be careful to hit your head",
Zheng Yan shouted a few times very insincerely, and then the two knives on his head fell straight down, Zheng Xingye took time out of his busy schedule and scolded with a smile, "Retribution",
A horizontal knife and a straight knife, looking at the two knives in his hand, Zheng Yan likes it a little, about more than twenty catties, obviously forged in pure gold, not to mention the sharpness, there are faint runes on the key knife, the magic weapon can't be said but it is definitely a divine weapon, the kind that can break spells,
"Bang dang", Zheng Yan threw the two knives to the side of the shelf.
"Life is really lonely like snow, who in the world can be the same as me? Don't you want the consequences and retreat one by one?How can there be so many good things for you in the world?", Zheng Yan said boredly while sitting on a table,
Zheng Xingye walked over and said angrily, "Cultivation is a process of picking up and choosing, it's better than those who rely on plundering, okay? Besides, a practice and a magic weapon may be a creation, and the mysteries of heaven only say that cause and effect are not exhaustive at all, you are born rich and noble, and you have to be windy and rainy since you were a child, how can you understand the feelings of low-level monks",
Zheng Yan looked at him with disdain, "Are you a low-level monk? Are they a low-level monk? I have seen a low-level monk, and there must be more than you, if they are all like you, then I can only say that I am a low-level monk, okay, stop talking nonsense, how did you get in? Didn't you fail to penetrate the illusion of the Dragon Gate before?",
The rest of the people came over one after another, and they refused to put down the things they had picked, but fortunately, they all restrained themselves and only took one piece, Zheng Yan always felt that it was not very safe.
After some telling, it turned out that they saw that Zheng Yan and Zheng Yuchan didn't come out for a day and a night, so they were ready to come in to find it, Zheng Xingye was the first to climb the waterfall again, not only exerted a lot of spells on his body, but also held the blade of a dagger to stimulate himself to stay awake, but he didn't enter the illusion again until he walked to the dragon gate, and then Xingshuang,
The two of them walked through the dragon gate one after the other and appeared in a trance in a large hall, walked through a tortuous passage and fought a few times with a yin object, and then arrived at the main hall where Zheng Yan and they fought before, and did not see the broken stones and destroyed statues on the ground, only saw the lotus flower and the exquisite pagoda rising in the center of the altar, Xingshuang said that she saw the figures of Zheng Yan and Zheng Yuchan on the top floor, but after opening it, she appeared on the first floor, and then she went up with the intention of finding the two of them first, and when she reached the third floor, she was controlled by time, and Zheng Xingye was the same、
Zheng Xinglu and the others waited for three days and didn't see the four of them come out, so they also climbed the waterfall together, and they didn't fall into the illusion again, and the experience after that was the same was the same, but through everyone's description, the place where they were moved was different, and the passage to the hall where there were statues of gods and demons was not the same.
Seeing that Zheng Yan was silent in thought, Zheng Yuchan thought for a while and said softly, "The old man we saw should be the core of the illusion, and after you reunited his soul, you also pulled him out of the illusion by the way, so the illusion outside also lost the core of operation, and everyone passed through the dragon gate directly, but instead of passing through the alley, they were directly moved to other places, maybe it was done by that senior, or it could be a mechanism for the underground palace to automatically pull people in."
"Mechanism?", Bai Bo couldn't help but ask, this word is indeed a little strange,
Zheng Yuchan smiled and said, "It's the ritual of the operation of the mechanism, uh, well, it's the set spell that starts automatically."
Everyone was stunned, Zheng Yan asked strangely, "Are you sure that there is no one else here except for that senior? The scale of the underground palace is just these places we have walked through? Where is the most critical exit? The time here is different from the outside, and so far we can't be sure how it is different, we can't feel the time here, well, the spatial perception is also very vague, so I think we have to find the way first",
After a total of several people, they finally broke free from the temptation of magic weapons, and then followed Zheng Yan's idea and began to look for a way out, naturally they all went down to the first floor, the first layer should be the largest layer, and the second floor is also a variety of magic weapons and miscellaneous items, because of the problem of the timeline, several people did not dare to separate casually, and walked through the first floor together, almost all corners are not traced to the exit, the place where the tower gate was originally cast is actually made of fine iron, and it has been locked.
"Is it on the top floor?", Zheng Xinglu asked suspiciously,
Zheng Yuchan shook her head, Zheng Yan on the top floor had explored it carefully, and there was indeed no exit, except for jumping out of the window, not to mention that it seemed that except for Zheng Yan and Zheng Yuchan, no one else could go up to the fourth floor.
Everyone had nothing to do and sat around and was stunned, and after a long time, Zheng Xingye asked strangely, "Haven't you been hungry for so long?"
No one paid any attention to him.
Zheng Xinglu took off the shield he chose from behind and smiled, and then shouted "out", the nine short swords on the shield flew out one after another, and began to circle around everyone quickly, the speed became faster and faster, the cold light was wrapped in a strong wind and penetrated into the skin, it was really cool, Zhang Caiyun moved to Zheng Xingye's side, Zheng Xingye glared at Zheng Xinglu, "Don't show off, when the time comes, detain your soul here to see if you are still shy",
Zheng Yuan hugged the domineering long knife and smiled, Zheng Yan didn't understand that these guys were so calm, out of sight and out of mind, he simply lay down and looked at the ceiling, how did her mother know what she wanted to know? Just reading a book? No, since the third layer involves time, those lights and shadows should not only see the present, but also the past and the future, what kind of future does she see? Does that future have anything to do with her fall? Is there anything about herself now? Why don't you change it when you see it? Is this the result of change?
The old man suddenly rose from the ground.